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Re: To disable serial port for ia64 dom0 (RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 0/

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: To disable serial port for ia64 dom0 (RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Add full evtchn mechanism forxen/ia64)
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 08:17:05 -0600
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On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 15:22 +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:

> But I'm not sure why I have to set option to be 'yes' explicitly:
> config XEN_DISABLE_SERIAL
>         bool "Disable serial port drivers"
>         default y
> 
> So after making oldconfig, this option should be enabled automatically. 
> Does I misunderstand the logic behind? :-(

  The "is not set" is logically equivalent to =n, so it's disabled
because of our default config in buildconfigs.  Thanks,

        Alex

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